Students and eminent leaders share inspiring stories on human dignity recognizing their own self-worth and the dignity in others Students and eminent leaders at the Global Dignity Day Celebration 2019 in Dhaka Hundreds of thousands of young people around the world...
Mashkura, aged 28, wife of Abdul Hamid a shrimp-farmer, lives in the coastal village of Abadchondipur. She has grown up there, having had a happy, healthy childhood, and got married to a man that she thought would be able to give her a good life. By all rights, the...
A MoU has been signed between Friendship and the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) to start operation of a comprehensive maternity centre (CMC) at the site of Friendship’s basic clinic 6, at Rohingya Camp 7, Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar. The United Nations High...
Friendship Colours of the Chars launched its first retail shop in Banani road 12, on Thursday, the 5th of September. The shop featured an exquisite line of handmade, natural-dyed clothing; handcrafted jewellery and artisan boats. Amongst the attendees at the massive...
Curtin University launched a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on “Disciplined Approach to Social Entrepreneurship”. This course will benefit individuals who are passionate about social justice and creating social impacts with a view to transforming the lives of the...
Floods in Bangladesh hit 5 million people A Woman leaves with a clutch of medicine from an emergency medical camp in Sundarganj, Gaibandha. PC: Jakariya by Naushad Ali HuseinAugust 5, 2019 Jasim Uddin has managed to get within a stone’s throw from his home by boat....
Naushad Ali Husein’s cream cheese bagel turns bitter in his mouth It shouldn’t be so easy to forget the story I just heard. An hour ago, I was seated around a table of people trying to keep their emotions under control as a birth attendant told us her survival story....
6 months after its official launch Since its official launch in December 2018 in Brussels during a friendly and inspiring evening, Friendship Belgium has grown steadily and with some success. A substantial amount of several thousand euros of donations has already been...
Dark clouds hang over the Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar. ©SYED WASAMA DOJA/FRIENDSHIP FRIENDSHIP NEWS DESKJuly 2, 2019 In August 2017, when thousands of Rohingya families arrived each day, fleeing from genocide across the border, before the government and humanitarian...